Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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How a mixed-race love affair between an African prince and an Englishwoman caused an international furore The Daily Telegraph Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2016-12-16 Marea Donnelly, History writer Ruth Williams and her husband Prince Seretse Khama in London in 1949. ONE can only surmise as to whether bank clerk Ruth Williams and her Bechuanaland prince Seretse…
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A United Kingdom: Love In The Time Of The British Empire Media Diversified 2016-11-28 Shane Thomas Once the year in film began with #OscarsSoWhite, was it coincidence that 2016 is closing – and 2017 beginning – with a raft of movies featuring people of colour? We have Hidden Figures, Lion, Fences, and the magnificent Moonlight to…
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The love story that shocked the world BBC News 2016-09-14 When an African prince and a white middle-class clerk from Lloyd’s underwriters got married in 1948, it provoked shock in Britain and Africa. Seretse Khama met Ruth Williams while he was a student at Oxford University. After his studies, he was supposed to go home…